Deadline: 11/15/22
Contact: Helena Feder
Email: federh@ecu.edu

This is a call for papers for the ASLE Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 25-28, 2023, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person).

Papers on any of the following topics in any period of American literature (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction) are especially welcome:

Literature of/and “accidental” farming
Literature of/and urban agriculture or community supported agriculture
Eco-georgics
Agriculture and the wild
Literature of/and food (in)security or deserts
Lineages of literary farming
Agricultural intimacy or indeterminacy
Farming and fungal networks
Agriculture amid clouds of precarity (drought, flood, fire, climate change, pollution …)
Agriculture and radical politics or technological skepticism
Agriculture and/as Art

Abstracts of 300 words and a CV due 11/15/2022. Email to Dr. Helena Feder: federh@ecu.edu
Panelists must be members of ASLE by May 1, 2023.

Posted on September 21, 2022